Following the big announcement of the launch of Barnes & Noble's self-publishing portal PubIt! yesterday, we have more news today, of an another big player in the self-publishing world.
This one hails out of Germany. The service is called XinXii. It is Germany's largest … [Read more...]

Have any brilliant manuscripts kicking about, just waiting for a readership? Well now you have another route to getting your work published. Barnes & Noble have launched the latest self-publishing effort. Though a little behind schedule -- the service was slated for a summer release -- the new … [Read more...]

The biggest newsto come from this year's Research In Motion's DevCon event has been, of course, the release of the new Playbook tablet (see below). But that hasn't been all the big news.
RIM has also been happy to talk to developers and press about three important new software 'plays' that'll be … [Read more...]

Seems like every industry player is anxious to launch their new tablets.
The most recent manifestation is Dell's Looking Glass tablet. It was showed off by Mr. Dell himself, CEO Michael Dell, at the Oracle Openworld conference, taking place in San Francisco earlier this week. Though Mr. Dell was … [Read more...]

Not to be outdone by the likes of the new Asus-Android tablet rumoured to be materializing momentarily, Research in Motion's BlackPad has also said to be dropping by any day now.
BlackBerry's BlackPad is said to be making its first public appearance next week in a developer's conference in San … [Read more...]

HTC has been rumoured to be working on a new Android tablet for some time now, and today, another rumour was been added into the ever-building vortex of tech blog mystery. According to secret sources over at Digitimes, Pegatron Technology -- a division of worldwide superpower hardware company … [Read more...]

A deal was sealed today that will bring masses of new books -- mostly self-published titles -- to the Kobo e-reader. The agreement, penned between Infinity Publishing, and Canadian-based Kobo Inc., will help expand Kobo Book's potential library to over 2.2 million books.
"This agreement opens up … [Read more...]

The market analysis firm In-Stat made a healthy prediction for the e-reader market today: the company believes that by 2014 sales of e-readers will just about triple. The company states that about 12 million e-readers will have been sold this year, and by the end of 2014, sales will have grown to a … [Read more...]

Today Sony has announced a new trio of e-readers which will be hitting stores next week. However, they will not be headed to all stores; for now, two of the three new e-readers will only be available in Australia. We can expect that it will not be long before the new Reader Pocket Edition, new Daily … [Read more...]

Amazon has made a major move in improving the availability of its ever-popular Kindle e-reader. The company has announced that coming this autumn, Kindles will be carried in Staples stores. With over 2000 Staples stores worldwide, this will no doubt be a huge boost to the visibility of Amazon's … [Read more...]